Trump's transgender ban sensible, scientific

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Jul 31, 2017 at 4:00 AM

By MICHAEL SHANNON Columnist

Up until quite recently the official policy on the left was to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally unstable. A CNN propagandist wrote, "If there's anything both sides of America's heated and polarizing gun debate may agree on, it's the need to keep firearms out of the hands of people with serious mental illness."'

The gun control group "Before It Starts" asked petition signers to, "Support stricter gun control by giving law enforcement and mental health professionals the obligation for independent mental health screening for gun permits...It's not the gun, but the people who are permitted to use them."

And New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo neatly summed up the left's former argument when he declared, "People who have mental health issues should not have guns."

So why is the left now demanding the mentally ill have access to the most dangerous weapons in the U.S. arsenal while still in the grip of their psychosis?

I don''t want a man who thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte cruising in a boomer beneath the polar ice cap any more than I want a man who thinks he's a woman sitting in a Montana missile silo.

GI Joe and GI Jane are different people, not different facets of the same person.

Normally the left assures a gullible public that it has science coming out of its ears, but in the case of "transgender" individuals they are going to let delusion set the agenda. And make no mistake - these poor, confused people are seriously deluded and mentally ill.

A 2016 Johns Hopkins Study points out the obvious: "The hypothesis that gender identity is an innate, fixed property of human beings that is independent of biological sex-that a person might be 'a man trapped in a woman's body' or 'a woman trapped in a man''s body''-is not supported by scientific evidence."

The science, to borrow a term, is "settled." The American College of Pediatricians holds, "Humans are male and female, biologically. Science is straightforward about this: a person's DNA either has two X chromosomes or one X and one Y...Scientifically, human sexuality is 'binary by design' with the aim of reproduction. Disorders of sex development (DSDs) are "rightly recognized as disorders," and those who suffer from them 'do not constitute a third sex.'"

A person's sex is coded into every individual cell in the body at the chromosomal level. Believing otherwise doesn't even qualify as superstition. It's just nuts.

Decisions regarding gender aren't a range of options anymore than Bulimia is a practical alternative to a balanced diet. These individuals need serious, sustained psychiatric help, not induction papers.

Trump's ban on these unhappy sufferers serving in any capacity in the military is sensible, scientific policy.

If they had their way where the PC commissars of the left would draw the line? Would transgenders be judged on a delusion spectrum? If a black man thinks he's a black woman, he's (she's) good to go, but if he starts thinking he's also Michelle Obama it's discharge time?

The basic absurdity and consequent moral erosion of the rank-and-file military that would be caused by mainstreaming the gender-confused is evidently not a problem for cultural Marxists. The command staff is ordered to pretend these people are perfectly normal, aside from their fundamental rejection of reality, and troops are to obey their orders as if they came from a normal person.

Only they aren't normal. Bi-gender individuals come with a host of pre-existing conditions that are a result of living a lie. The Johns Hopkins study: "Members of the transgender population are also at higher risk of a variety of mental health problems compared to members of the non-transgender population. Especially alarmingly, the rate of lifetime suicide attempts across all ages of transgender individuals is estimated at 41percent, compared to under 5 percent in the overall U.S. population."

That's a comforting thought when one considers the firepower available to members of the US military.

Columnist Matt Barber asks, "If your daughter "identified" as a fat person...but, in reality, suffered from anorexia - would you affirm her 'fatness' and get her liposuction?"

No, you'd get her mental help, but not in the Pentagon.

Up until Trump's tweet, they were funding body vandalism with tax dollars, as disturbed people demanded "gender reassignment surgery." But why single reassignment surgery for special treatment? Wouldn't a woman who thought she was Barbie trapped in Olive Oil's body qualify for breast enhancement surgery on the tax dime?

If the left wants to conduct its insane social experiments in the Peace Corps it can be my guest, but taxpayers should completely reject gender experimentation in the Marine Corps.

Any general or civilian Pentagon official that thinks otherwise isn't fit to serve either.

Michael Shannon is a commentator and public relations consultant, and is the author of "A Conservative Christian's Guidebook for Living in Secular Times." He can be reached at mandate.mmpr@gmail.com